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"You need my consent before you track me." What about this statement is so inherently difficult to understand for SEs at companies like Google? It's time to stop!
That would be why SEs at Google et. al. seem incapable of understanding. The business model, and thus, their salaries, is dependent upon tracking people, consent or no.
I want to suggest another thing you can do as a web developer. If you can afford it, block all Chrome users, and instruct users to download Firefox instead. Explain why your website is not available for Chrome.
At what point enough is enough and Chrome and other data-collecting Google products can be called for what they are - spyware? It’s time to pick another browser.
Point is right now. Chrome is spyware, clear and simple.
While I do understand that some people may not like it, I don't see how FLoC is particularly harmful. I've read several articles about it, and most of them just say something like "you are being put in a advertising cohort -- see how creepy it is", which doesn't really prove anything. One more specific argument against FLoC is that it will make help tracking users via fingerprinting. I don't really buy it. First of a…
> While I do understand that some people may not like it, I don't see how FLoC is particularly harmful. Sure, I can give an example: it goes beyond simple basic fingerprinting, it allows you to be associated with a group of "others" (your cohort) in ways that can be dangerous to you. Suppose you live in a country where you may not enjoy certain freedoms or some behaviors may be outlawed; end up in the wrong cohort(s)…
But state actors won't be able identity me individually, so I don't see the harm either. And you can actually reset you FLoC id at any time.
I think advertisers (like Facebook) know that this will damage their revenue and doing mass brain wash to make people think this is harmful for everyone (Cambridge Analytica style).
Would I be terribly downvoted if I said that I prefer targeted ads? I'd rather see GPUs than feminine hygiene products. FLoC seems like a method of saving my preferences locally, which is fine. I'm not interested. I won't use Google's browsers and I'll continue to filter my traffic. Internet privacy will always be an uphill battle, there's worse things going on, starting with centralized and monopolized DNS, I feel w…
It’s not local, because your cohort id will be sent to advertisers, and they’ll back-reference that against what they believe you’re interested in. But either way, your initial statement assumes that ads will only be interesting to you if your browsing habits are tracked across the internet. There’s another option: if you visit sites that are focused on GPUs they can advertise GPUs to you. This is the way advertising…
From 2000-2010 you had site/search based adverts
From 2010-2020 you had tracking based adverts
I can't think of even 1 time I've seen a useful advert though
While I do understand that some people may not like it, I don't see how FLoC is particularly harmful. I've read several articles about it, and most of them just say something like "you are being put in a advertising cohort -- see how creepy it is", which doesn't really prove anything. One more specific argument against FLoC is that it will make help tracking users via fingerprinting. I don't really buy it. First of a…
> EFF brings up a second concern which is also novel and scary in terms of privacy. If you sign up to an online service with your email address, they can immediately tie your last week’s browsing data with the email address that you supply them (or physical address, phone nr, etc). It means any service you use now knows what you’ve been up to and not just in an anonymous way
While I do understand that some people may not like it, I don't see how FLoC is particularly harmful. I've read several articles about it, and most of them just say something like "you are being put in a advertising cohort -- see how creepy it is", which doesn't really prove anything. One more specific argument against FLoC is that it will make help tracking users via fingerprinting. I don't really buy it. First of a…
From the article... > EFF brings up a second concern which is also novel and scary in terms of privacy. If you sign up to an online service with your email address, they can immediately tie your last week’s browsing data with the email address that you supply them (or physical address, phone nr, etc). It means any service you use now knows what you’ve been up to and not just in an anonymous way
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> We need to ban targeted advertising to truly have a privacy-first web.
Why ban it when it's a dying business?
Would I be terribly downvoted if I said that I prefer targeted ads? I'd rather see GPUs than feminine hygiene products. FLoC seems like a method of saving my preferences locally, which is fine. I'm not interested. I won't use Google's browsers and I'll continue to filter my traffic. Internet privacy will always be an uphill battle, there's worse things going on, starting with centralized and monopolized DNS, I feel w…
Maybe on both sites you get shown ads for coca cola or a car.
None of those require building up a profile that tracks your personal browsing habits across the entire internet and is simply targeting your customers where they are.